by Matthew Oswald, Philosophy One of the best pieces of advice a professor has ever given me about coursework is to write about whatever topic I understand least. We develop the most when we’re challenged; stretching our capacities is how we extend them. Sadly, one of the deleterious features of our university system’s fervor for…
Empowering Voice When You Have Something Worth Saying by Justice Britton Walter Fisher’s Narrative Paradigm Theory provides a conceptual framework and/or a shared perceptual filter which centers the process of meaning-making and knowledge production within a vision of the world as a set of stories from which various communities construct and constantly re-construct their lives…
by Katharine Napora, Anthropology, ’18-19 I don’t care if, in a year from now, my students remember which hominin is associated with the Acheulean stone tool tradition, which dicotyledon species have semi ring-porous wood, or what the appropriate symbology is for relationships in a kinship chart. What I do care about is that all students…